Opponents of free speech often fear people will be influenced by the bad ideas whilst defenders usually think it's the way to defeat them
Of course, there is something in the latter. The views of the majority do become accepted as the norm. But they change.
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There is resistance to accepting that the zeitgeist changes via the free expression of ideas & new, minority ideas gaining acceptance.
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You see it when, for eg, ppl insist feminists or the Civil Rights Movement changed society single-handedly by means of activism.
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They get angry if you suggest they increased discussion but society as a whole changed & that is how the change became the norm.
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Yes, the debate started much earlier with Wollstonecraft, Bentham, Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill.
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Yes, exactly. The ideas were ripening & they came into fruition in the 60s.
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Back the the FS issue, it still find it puzzling that manypeople are so sensitive to dissenting or even reactionary views.
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In others words, some views are so dangerous they should not be heard. And sometimes that includes opposition to gay marriage or abortion.
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Yes. Because they don't trust the individual to evaluate them despite all the evidence we are more liberal now than ever.
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